Our contact details
If you are a located in the UK, please contact RCPCH if you wish to make a request or if you have a general enquiry.
Name: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Address: 5 -11 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8SH
Phone: number +44 (0)20 7092 6000
Email: Data Protection Officer (for privacy/data protection enquiries only): information.governance@rcpch.ac.uk
For general enquiries, please submit a request to RCPCH Help Centre.
Our EEA representative
If you are located in the EEA or EU, or Switzerland you can contact DataRep if you wish to make a request under EU GDPR or the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). Please see our website privacy policy for more details on how to contact DataRep.
If you have any concerns over how DataRep will handle the personal data they will require to undertake for their services, please refer to the DataRep privacy notice.
What information do we collect about you?
Most of the personal data we process is provided to us directly by you.
However, we sometimes also receive your personal data indirectly from the following sources:
- Your personal data from the RCPCH database ('Care') where we hold members' details
Why do we collect this information?
Data protection law requires that we have one or more of the following lawful bases to process your information:
- “Legitimate Interest” – where we have assessed that the benefits of us processing your data are legitimate and not outweighed by your interests or legal rights.
We collect and process your personal data for the following purposes:
- To contact you regarding course availability and offer you a place (legitimate interest)
- To confirm your RCPCH membership (legitimate interest)
If you no longer want to be part of the course waiting list, you can submit your request to RCPCH Help Centre.
How long do we keep hold of your information for?
We put security measures in place to ensure that your information is securely stored.
We will retain your personal information until we have offered you a place on the course, until the next instalment of the course has passed, or until you tell us you want to be removed from the list, whichever is first.
We will then dispose of your information by secure deletion.
Transferring information outside of the UK
To provide some products and services we, or our data processors, may transfer and process information in countries outside of the UK. Some of these countries, such as those in the EEA, will have an officially recognised equivalent level of protection to the UK (adequacy decision). A list of these countries can be found via the ICO website. Where there is no adequacy decision, we will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your information is protected by having in place a recognised safeguard with our partners and suppliers, such as regulatory approved Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules or Codes of Conduct.
To find out more about any specific uses of information in countries outside of the UK, or for further information about the safeguards that we have put in place, please contact the RCPCH Data Protection Officer: information.governance@rcpch.ac.uk
Understanding GDPR and your data rights
To help you understand more about the information in this and all our privacy notices, see our page, Understanding GDPR and your data rights. This explains common words and phrases used in our privacy notices, describes our use of artificial intelligence (AI) and details the rights you have in relation to the processing of your personal data under UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and how to make a request.
How to make a complaint
If you are unhappy with how we are using your personal data or how we have dealt with a rights request, you should contact us in the first instance so that we can understand and try to resolve your concern. If you would like to make a complaint, please follow our data protection complaints process. If you remain dissatisfied, you can complain to the Information Commission.
Last updated 18 May 2026